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Offline Questor

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Seems eerily like Jimmy Carter...
« on: December 07, 2009, 04:00:57 AM »
This is an interesting commentary from Wall Street Journal about backfiring of some of our foreign policy initiatives.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703499404574558300500152682.html?mod=rss_opinion_main
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Re: Seems eerily like Jimmy Carter...
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2009, 11:34:00 AM »
The arabs only respect strength, they neither respect or understand weakness or any show of it.
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Re: Seems eerily like Jimmy Carter...
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2009, 08:52:28 PM »
you forgot something torpedoman... that if they do so themselves it's probably a ruse, and whether it is or not, they'll feel shamed and attack you when your back is turned.  bedouin ways are ancient and simple- and they work too.
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